Strange Aroma in the Elevator

Never mind that

Miara dragged Kabir into a small family restaurant that was famous for its homey and cozy interior. Both of them found a booth and ordered their all-time favorite butter chicken and naan, with spicy fried chicken and of course a bottle of beer to share.

"So, how's work?" Miara asked chewing on delicious chicken.

Kabir clapped his hand excitedly ready to unload everything on her. "Well, we got some crazy recruits this year, there are a total number of eight doctors, and there are four neurologists, and one of them is so hot," he exaggerated explaining every characteristic of the 'hot' doctor.

She laughed looking at the happy bunny excited about a new chew toy, "So, who is it this time," she asked sipping on her beer.

He sighed fixing his jacket, "it's a guy, he is so f*****g hot, you will know when you see him, God! Miara you won't believe it he is the only son of our director and he is the youngest neurologist in our country," he fanned himself overreacting. Nerd

Miara laughed throwing her head back, enjoying every moment of it, "Hearing you say this reminds me about the time how you learned the medical statement for your craziness as pansexuality, and you explained to me how liking both genders were normal. like it would have made any difference," she laughed so hard that it was hard to sit properly on her chair

He grabbed her arm pulling her towards him and hushed her, looking around them to see people staring at them irritated, he nodded his head apologizing "Miara, stop it people are staring, and now that I look around, why the hell are you here alone? Where is Ronit? Isn't he supposed to be your bodyguard?" He asked raising his eyebrow at her.

She waved his concern off pulling down the last of her beer. "He is somewhere around,"

He shook his head tiredly " Why do you take these things so lightly, what if someone kidnaps you? Huh, what would you do then?" He asked worried about the future

Miara rolled her eyes at him "Dude, I'm not BTS, why would anyone kidnap me?" She ignores his look and continued stuffing her face with delicious fried chicken.

"I don't understand your obsession with BTS, I mean we got celebrities too, you know," he said snatching one drumstick from her hand before she devours every last piece of it.

She grabbed his hand and took a huge bite out of the last fried chicken breast, she grinned evilly at his defeated face and sat back relaxed. "True but they ain't BTS, and I'm not obsessed with them if I were I would have already kidnapped them and hid them in my basement,"

He raised his hands in surrender "I don't doubt that I think you are very capable of it but still, there are a lot of people that can hurt you, I'm concerned as your best friend," he said looking all serious.

She looked at him seriously then turned towards the waitress called her up, "Excuse me, Hi, can we get another bottle, please, and one more thing, do you the company called Vibetech?" She asked smiling at the confused waitress.

Kabir was hiding his face in his hands looking apologetic at the poor girl, "Umm, I think I have heard the name somewhere," she replied looking between the best friends.

Miara smiled "Great, can you please tell me who is the CEO of that company, it's for a crossword puzzle," she tried being polite

The waitress tilts her head deep in thoughts, she shook her head "I'm sorry, I don't know," Miara smiled at her and dismissed her.

She turned her head at the embarrassed Kabir, "See nobody cares, relax, it's no big deal, have a beer," she pushed the glass full of beer in his direction but he pushed it back.

"I got to take a few rounds before I punch out of the hospital, no more alcohol for me," he smiled drinking his water. She shrugged gulping down the beer.

"You were telling me about the new doctor you got your eyes on," she distracted him with his favorite topic. Kabir smiled at him as he blushes with just the thought of the hot doctor.

He rambled about how hot the doctor is and what kind of genius he is, Miara looks at him as he spoke about him so passionately, he was the only person in the world who was real with her, there was never a single moment in her life where he wasn't there for her when she needed him the most.

"But the thing is I don't know if he swings that way, things are different here in India, people aren't very open about their sexuality as they are in London, " he huffed playing with the masala papad, she rolled her eyes at him and grabbed hold on his hand squeezing it in comfort.

"You got nothing to worry about if he turned out to be straight there is nothing to lose and if he gave you any problems about it, you know I got acres of land perfect to hide a body," she smiled at him creepily, he burst out laughing, both of them ended up laughing their lives out.

"You know, for a brain doctor you are kind of dumb," she teased him for worrying about it.

He rolled his eyes at her " Says you, the one who is married to her computer, remember ninth grade when that footballer approaches you with flowers and chocolate, trying his luck with you," he laughed remembering the embarrassing memory.

Miara groaned "please stop," but he don't he continued

"You... You threw the flowers away and gave the chocolate to another girl, you told him he was not smart enough to be with you," he laughed heartedly. She groaned embarrassed "No one approached you after that everyone thought you were a brat," he smirked later.

Both of them kept sharing embarrassing stories about each other before Kabir's phone rang, he smiled at her and was about to leave when she decided to join him, he couldn't argue with her because she was hard to deal with once she sets her mind on something.

Both of them walked to the hospital and saw a couple of ambulances at the entrance of the ER section, there was a lot of hustle in the ER as a lot of patients kept coming in.

One of the nurses ran towards Kabir and updated him about the patients that had serious head injuries he nodded at her and was about to ask Miara to leave when she nodded her head at him, he smiled at her and then ran with the nurse inside the ward.

She looked around the patients. and the medical staff, rushing around helping everyone in need, she asked a nurse that was passing by "Excuse me what happened, was there an accident?" The nurse seemed to recognize her and explained

"A lorry driver lost control of his lorry and slammed into a bus on the bridge, several people were injured and many are in serious condition," she said awfully.

She nodded her head and let her go, she knew there wasn't much she could do so she was about to leave when a group of people entered the hospital, paramedics pushed through a stretcher hurriedly but what caught her attention was the doctor that hovered over the patient holding the wound on his waist, he was operating on the patent as the paramedics pushed the stretcher in.

She was stupified at the sight, she has witnessed a lot of operations and critical patients but this was something else. His hand was inside the man's stomach holding something inside, his hands and clothes were all bloody but he looked determined.

They moved past her and carried the patient towards the OR, unconsciously she followed them, everyone was too busy to notice her slip in, she watched him operate on the patient from the glass door. All that blood and spilling organs should have grossed her out but she didn't look phased. She actually, looked impressed which is a surprise because it's nearly impossible to impress Miara Ahuja.

She stood there for a while but when the light above the OR turned green she turned to leave. The doctors and nurses came out of the OR exhausted, due to the very risky surgery, all three of them smiled at each other for doing a great job but the fifth doctor just left without greeting the other doctors.

"I can't believe someone so cold can be so talented," one of the nurses commented as they watched the lead doctor scrubs out, he stopped when he was scrubbing his hands, his senses were always filled with the scents of chemicals but an unusual fragrance made its way to his nose.

He stood there taking in the light scent and looked around himself, trying to figure out where it was coming from but to no avail, everywhere he looked he couldn't find the owner of that particular scent.